Gayl Jones

Butter

Novellas, Stories and Fragments

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A dazzling collection of short fiction from Pulitzer and National Book Award Finalist, Gayl Jones

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 126mm x 199mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9780349016894
• ISBN-10: 0349016895
• Artikelnr.: 67822167

Autorenporträt

Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University and has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora (1975), Eva's Man (1976), The Healing (1998), which was a National Book Award finalist, Palmares (2021), which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and The Birdcatcher (2022), which was also a National Book Award Finalist.

Inhaltsangabe

“Butter”: A novella
“Sophia”: A novella
“Screen Test”: A fragment
“A Spy Story”
“Garlic Bread”: A novella
“The Costume Maker”
“Worker”: A fragment
“Mirabeau”
“Jigsaw Sandals”
“Shuger’s Wife”
“The Female Angel”
“Horse Race”: A fragment
“Bathtub Gin”: A fragment
“The Historian, the Actress, and the Playwright”
“Ravenna”
“The Horse-Believing Woman”
“The Lost Stories”: Fragments
Jazz People
Abstract Fiction
Cultural Pluralism
Sweet Marsala
Rainbow People
The Elephant, or Totem and Taboo
The Gingerbread Man: An Experiment
Wooley Boatman
Stephan and Pilar
Mrs. Marsipan
Aunt Jane’s Dream